Toy gun found in Chester High School student’s backpack leads to lockdown
Via The Delaware County Daily Times
CHESTER >> A toy gun brought to school by a Chester High School student sent the school into lockdown Tuesday morning, according to police and school district sources.
The incident occurred at about 10:30 a.m. when school officials received a report that someone had brought a gun to school, Chester Upland spokesperson Becky Taylor said. A student reported seeing a classmate take what appeared to be a gun from their waistband and put it in their backpack. Police and school security officers put the building into lockdown and did a room by room search of the school.
A security officer discovered what appeared to be a gun in a backpack, and a student was taken into police custody, she said. The gun was not real.
Taylor said that it is a police matter at this time. The the lockdown was ended at about 11:30 a.m. and classes resumed as usual.
This is one of those events that make you wonder what it is people are thinking. While this high school kid should have absolutely known 
what kind of attention bringing anything that even resembles a gun to a school in todays hypersensitive society would get, taking it to the level of arresting the kid over a toy gun seems to be taking things too far on the part of police.
We have ended up in a place as a society where the masses have been conditioned to fear guns by a media that panders to the LEFT which seeks to disarm America. This has led to an unhealthy level of fear towards an inanimate object and a society that not only fears guns but a society that uses that fear to fuel a movement to infringe upon healthy, legal, gun owning Americans.
As Ed Krayewski points out in his story on this incident:
Firearms training in high school would go a long way in fighting hoplophobia and preparing students to exercise their Second Amendment rights responsibly, but at the very least a “national conversation” on how far zero tolerance has been taken in schools is long overdue, and shouldn’t have to wait until a student of a certain race is mistreated. The Department of Justice, after all, has already warned about the “disparate impact” of zero tolerance policies.
